Lähettäjä: giulia v. Päiväys: Aihe: [Badgirlz-list] A Call to Action: women and transgendered
experiences of a queer revolution
> Hello all. >
> I ve been chatting with Ramsey over at AK Press
> about putting together an
> anthology of essays and stories on queer organizers
> that would examine how
> one can organize events and festivals in their
> hometowns and stories of our
> experiences with organizing queer
> festivals,events,resource centers,club
> nights,happenings,etc. AK Press is thrilled with the
> concept and the proposal
> and would like to pursue the publishing of this
> anthology. I ve contacted
> all of you as I would love to have you participate
> in this project and am
> inspired by your activism and community organizing.
> If you are interested
> in being part of this anthology please let me know.
> Essays or personal stories
> should be under 4,000 words and sent to me by Feb
> 23rd 2005 at femina_potens@???.
> If you could get them to me sooner that would be
> fabulous. Below is a blurb
> about the anthology to give you all insite into the
> project. If you know
> of other women and transgendered queer organizers
> that would make excellent
> additions to this anthology please pass their info
> onto me.
>
> Thank you.
> Tina Butcher
>
> http://www.feminanpotens.com > http://www.tinabutcher.com > http://www.akpress.org/ > http://www.akuk.com/ >
> A Call to Action: women and transgendered
> experiences of a queer revolution
> is a compilation of essays and true stories of
> strong women and transfolk
> who put it all out there on the line to make a
> difference in the queer community
> creating further visibility, support, education, and
> inspiration to queers
> everywhere. These are stories from collectives, non
> profits, and groups of
> women and transfolk that are organizing events,
> workshop, rock shows, festivals,
> and creating resource centers that are strengthening
> our community. These
> voices of change often go unheard and unnoticed when
> you are living in small
> towns in the middle of Nowhere, USA. I grew up in
> the middle of the midwest
> craving change and community and it wasn t until I
> moved to San Francisco
> in my early twenties that I really found that. All
> of the organizations featured
> in this anthology created a call to action from the
> queer community to get
> involved, to support each other and inspire one
> another with art and revolutionary
> actions. This book is created in hopes to fuel that
> fire of inspiration and
> to bring about a call to action once again from all
> the queers out there,
> to let you all know that it can be done where ever
> you live, and how you
> can start organizing in your hometown. Because if
> there is going to be a
> change, we re going to need to do it ourselves.
